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Syrup of Farcy or Farcin Ball

An automatically extracted historical preparation published directly for live editorial review. Botanical identity, formula structure and safety may be incomplete; this is not treatment or dosage guidance.

Related plant contextAlterative PreparationSyrup RouteInternal use Plant recordliquorice ↗

Alterative

A historical herbal term for gradual improvement of general function or elimination; it has no single modern medical definition.

This use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.

It documentsA historical source passage and its preparation structure.
It does not establishModern effectiveness, an individual dose, diagnosis or personal suitability.
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Automated live-review record

This formula was extracted automatically from a historical source and published directly for live editorial inspection. It may contain OCR, title, botanical-identity, ingredient, structure or safety errors. Do not use it as treatment, dosage or self-care guidance.

Source: A new supplement to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris; forming a complete dispensatory and conspectus; including the new French medicines, as well as herbs, drugs, compounds, veterinary drugs, patent medicines, perfumery, paints, varnishes, and similar articles kept in the shops; with their composition, uses, doses, and adulterations; being a general book of formulae for daily reference in the laboratory, and at the counter by Rennie, James, A.M. surgeon; University of Glasgow. Library (1820), narrative-offset-93289.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Farcy or Farcin Ball: 5jss of tartarized antimony, of nitre, 5iij of liquorice powder, to make a ball with syrup. Dose repeated twice a day

Method as extracted

  1. Mix according to the source passage: Take 5jss of tartarized antimony, of nitre, 5iij of liquorice powder, to make a ball with syrup. Dose repeated twice a day.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, title ingredient mismatch, not marked promotable, critical hazard archive only. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.

Modern safety boundary

Toxic / do not self-use

Do not self-use. The record remains public for historical, botanical and hazard research.

  • Unreviewed automated import: this record is public for live editorial inspection and has not passed manual identity, formula or safety review.
  • Historical formula: ingredient identity, strength, contamination risk and terminology may differ from modern practice.
  • Do not use this record as dosage or treatment guidance. Every ingredient, route and contraindication requires qualified editorial verification.
  • The historical use wording does not establish modern clinical effectiveness.
  • Automated review flags: toxic metal or mineral, corrosive or toxic chemical.
Sources & editorial standard

Primary wording. Visible interpretation. No borrowed certainty.

The public record separates the historical passage, structured preparation data, use relationship and modern safety boundary. Same-plant context is presented as context, never as proof that this preparation was intended for that use.

Primary and supporting references

  1. A new supplement to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris; forming a complete dispensatory and conspectus; including the new French medicines, as well as herbs, drugs, compounds, veterinary drugs, patent medicines, perfumery, paints, varnishes, and similar articles kept in the shops; with their composition, uses, doses, and adulterations; being a general book of formulae for daily reference in the laboratory, and at the counter — A new supplement to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris; forming a complete dispensatory and conspectus; including the new French medicines, as well as herbs, drugs, compounds, veterinary drugs, patent medicines, perfumery, paints, Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-93289.
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